Definition of "motherliness" [moth•er•li•ness]

• The property of being motherly. (noun)

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• "The teacher whose influence is felt most and lasts longest is the one whose "motherliness" supplements her academic acquirements and supplies a sympathetic understanding of the child."
• "But the motherliness which is in every true woman's heart, warded off this danger."
• "This same element of "motherliness" it was, which gained her the respectful attention of an audience of the roughest and most ignorant Cornish miners up in Caribou, who would listen to no other woman speaking upon the subject."